Going Green

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Sudan Food Production and Food Aid

This is a complex issue that underlines the difficulty with working with the corrupt regimes in some parts of the world.

Darfur Withers as Sudan Sells a Food Bonanza

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: August 9, 2008

ED DAMER, Sudan — Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries, capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.

Here in the bone-dry desert, where desiccated donkey carcasses line the road, huge...(complete article here).

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